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TUSAYAN, Ariz. — A British man died in a skydiving accident near Grand Canyon National Park Sunday morning. Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the area of the Grand Canyon National Park Airport in Arizona at approximately 9:55 a.m. on report of the skydiving accident, in which two men were injured. The men had been skydiving in tandem when they were injured. One...

A British man has died in a skydiving accident in the US, police in the state of Arizona have said. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office named the man as Christopher Swales, 55, who had been undertaking a tandem dive near...

A tourist has died in a skydiving accident near the Grand Canyon after suffering a "hard landing" when his parachute failed to open. Christopher Swales, a 55-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was on a sky-diving trip on September 8 with Paragon Skydive, a company at the Grand Canyon National Park Airport when authorities said he and his sky-diving partner who worked at the...

A man from the United Kingdom has died in a skydiving crash at a small Arizona airport near Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said. Coconino County sheriff's officials, who identified the man Tuesday as 55-year-old Christopher Swales, got a call Sunday about two men injured after skydiving in tandem. Deputies said they found Swales unconscious on the ground at Grand...

PHOENIX – A tourist from the United Kingdom was killed in a tandem skydiving jump near the Grand Canyon and the skydiver he jumped with seriously injured, authorities say. The pair had jumped while attached after taking off Sunday from Grand Canyon National Park Airport. The accident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration. The man who died was identified...

Two men were injured -- one fatally -- while skydiving in tandem in Arizona on Sunday. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to the area of the Grand Canyon National Park Airport around 9:55 a.m. to reports of two men injured in a skydiving accident. One suffered a broken leg and was transported to the Flagstaff Medical Center. The other, identified as...